If you struggle with knowing how to plan out your day, or you often find yourself finishing out the workday having gotten much less done than you originally planned… the My Day page is for you.
In the video above, you’ll get an in-depth, 26-minute guide that goes over each section of the My Day page, along with the daily planning process that it helps you practice.
- 00:00 – Introduction
- 01:27 – My Day Page Overview (Plan, Execute, Wrap Up)
- 02:47 – The Plan Step
- 03:42 – My Day Checkbox vs. Due Dates
- 04:38 – The Execute Step
- 06:02 – Ordering Tasks
- 08:32 – Process vs. Immersive Tasks
- 12:04 – Energy Level and Location Tagging
- 15:02 – Time Tracking Feature
- 18:20 – Building Execution Confidence
- 22:02 – The Wrap-Up Step
- 22:56 – Clear My Day Button
- 25:31 – Plan Tomorrow Section
The Ultimate Brain Full Tour video contains a much quicker, 6-minute overview of this page. Check it out if you’re in a hurry, but still want a video guide!
Ultimate Brain’s My Day page is, without a doubt, my favorite page in the template. It’s a rigid, opinionated dashboard that is designed from the ground up to help you:
- Create a realistic, focused plan for the day
- Put tasks in the ideal order
- Actually carry out your plan
- Know exactly what to work on next
To that end, it guides you through a 3-step process, which you’ll go through over the course of the whole day:
- Plan – look through your Task Manager and deliberately add tasks to a blank, empty daily plan
- Execute – put those tasks in the best order and do them (with optional time-tracking)
- Wrap-Up – review what you got done, clear the Execute list, adjust unfinished tasks as needed
If I was trying to manufacture a viral YouTube productivity video, perhaps I’d call this the PEW Process. And I may eventually do just that!
For now, I’ll simply state that using this process on a daily basis is extremely effective. If you’ve already gone through the Getting Started guide, adopting this process is likely the single best next step you can take if you’re looking to be more productive on a daily basis. It’ll bring a calm, focused confidence to your work.
The My Day page features a section for each of these steps. To successfully work through the process, simply move through each section.
Check out the video guide at the top of this page for a more in-depth look at the process!